How to Plant a Landscape With Drooping Red Flowers

Planning a home landscape requires research, preparation, timing and a sense of style. A landscape can include the standards -- lawn, vegetables, rose garden -- or be tailored to fit individual tastes in regard to color, shape and seasonal blooms. If you've decided on a landscape full of red blooms, and want some of the blooms to hang down instead of growing up, choose some standard red-blooming plants and supplement with vines and shrubs that feature hanging flowers. Always choose vines and plants that are hardy to your growing zone for best success.

Things You'll Need

Quick-draining soil
Organic compost

Spade

Instructions

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  Prepare the yard before you start. Begin your preparation and planting in spring, when the ground thaws, to give plants a good start for the summer season. Dig into the top 4 to 6 inches of soil in every flowerbed or planting site, break up the dirt clods, remove rocks and throw out any weeds. Mix 1 inch of quick-draining soil and 2 inches of organic compost into every site to give the plants good drainage and rich nutrition for growth.
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  Plant foundation plants that bloom in reds as the basis of your landscape. Choose from roses, lilies, tulips, columbine, begonias, petunias, peonies and marigolds, or include other annual and perennial flowers according to your taste. Although these plants bloom upward, they'll provide a colorful and complementary backdrop for your featured blooms.
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  Plant vines and shrubs that feature hanging blooms. Choose from bougainvillea, trumpet vine, angel's trumpet, Leycesteria formosa and fuscias, or choose plants from your local nursery. Plant vines in spots where they can grow against a wall or trellis, to add another dimension to your garden.

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